Konik, a local community located five kilometres from the capital of Montenegro Podgorica, is the largest refugee camp in the Balkans, settled by Roma and Egyptians who left Kosovo after the conflict in 1999 and came to Montenegro. Hadzi Paljaci came from Pec, Kosovo, in 1999 with his wife and four children. Today, he has another four children and supports the entire 10-member family from the salary he gets as a Konik construction site guard. His eldest, 20-year old son, helps him whenever he can. When they arrived in Konik, they lived in an improvised hut built from scraps of wood, tin and rubbish. Today, they all live together in a small container which they received as immediate assistance when the tent they lived in burned down in the fire during the summer of 2012, leaving them and the other camp tenants without any belongings, once again. The containers that they received after the fire were equipped with water and electricity installations, fridges, stoves and basic furniture, providing some form of a decent life to the residents. Hadzi’s younger children go to school regularly, thanks to the transportation which is organised to the city schools. After working hours, the tenants of the camp gather in a community centre and play chess, domino or cards, listen to the music and chat. In December 2015, the project for the construction of 48 apartments and a community centre for the tenants of the Konik camp, financed through IPA 2007-2013 funds, was completed and the tenants moved into their new homes. The rest of the families from the camp will get housing assistance through the RHP - the construction of 171 new housing units will allow the final closure of the camp in 2018.